18th century

Voltaire

Thomas Paine

Carl Linnaeus

Alexander von Humboldt

Mary Wollstonecraft

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jeremy Bentham

Caroline Herschel

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Edmund Burke

Hans Christian Ørsted

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Immanuel Kant

Sophie Germain

François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

Pierre Beaumarchais

Carl Friedrich Gauss

David Hume

Denis Diderot

Pierre de Marivaux

Adam Smith

Montesquieu

Samuel Johnson

Jane Austen

Antoine Lavoisier

Friedrich Schiller

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet

Georges Cuvier

Isaac Newton

John Locke

Emmanuel Swedenborg